Bumper



BUMPER Filed Feb. 16, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 l l r l l l1 Hemlz/ Woke@ iNVENTOR WITNESS:-

oct'. so, 1923.

H. M. VICKERY BUMPER `Filed Feb. 16, 1923 2 Shee'ts-Sheet 2 Herz@ M Wc/(eL/ Patented Oct. 30, 1923.

entran STATES wenn HENRY H. VICKERY, OF LOS ANGELES, CLIFGRNIA.

BUMPER.

Application led February 16, 1923. Serial No. 619,433.

To all-whom z't may con cem.'

Be it lgnown that I, HENRY M. VICKERY, a citizen of' the United States, residing at Los Angeles1 in the county of Los Angeles 5 and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements .in Bumpers, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to a bumper for motor vehicles, the general object ot the invention being to provide means for protecting the sides as well as the ends of the vehicle against collision.

Another object of the invent-ion is to provide means for supporting the side bumpers from the running boards of the vehicle.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim. I

In describing my invention in detail, refl erence will be had to the accompanying v2&5 drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts. throughout the several views, and in whichz Figure 1 is a plan view of an' automobile equipped with my invention. '30 Figure 2 is a side View thereof. Figure 3 is an end view.` Ei ure 4 is a detail sectional view showing t e means for connecting the front and rear bumpers to the frame ofthe car.' S5 l Figure 5 ils a detail sectional view showing the means forv connecting the ends of the end bumpers with the side. bumpers.

In these views 1 indicates the bumper at X, the rearof the vehicle, 2 -indicates the l0 bumper at the front thereof and 3 and 4 indicate the bumpers at the sides of the automobile. The frontl and rear parts are attached to the automobile in the usual or l, any desired manner and these bumpers may be of any desired shape. The drawings show these bumpers as connected with a part of the frame of the automobile by the' socketed brackets 5 which are secured to a part of the frame and which receive the pistons 5 which are pivoted to the bumpers, the bumper being normallyheld in its outerposition by the springs 6 which encircle fall within the scope of the appended claim.

the pistons. The side bumpers 3 and are f connected with the running boards of the vehicle by a similar construction. In this casethe sockcted brackets 5 are connected with' the running board. The springs act to take up the shock of blows coming upon the bumpers. The side bumpers have their ,n front ends curved upwardly to a point adja-JY cent the ends of the front bumper, as shoxfn at 7, so as to protect the front fenders and the iront Wheels while the rest of each side bumper is substantially straight and has its rear extending across the rear wheels and the rear end of the. rear fender to protect these parts. The side bumpers are connected with the end bumpers by means of the pistons 8 which engage sockets in the side bumpers and which have their T-shaped ends engaging slots 9 in the end bars, springs 10 being placed onfthe. pistons be- Y tween the bumpers to normally pressthem apart. This arrangement of parts permits Y movement of one bumper in relation to thev other.

From the foregoing it will be seen that both the-sides as well as the ends of thc automobile are protected by the vbumpers against blows from other machines and the li e. i

It is thought from thc'oregoing description that the advantages and novel features og. my invention will be readily apparent.

I desire it to be understood that I may make'changes in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the severa-l parts, provided that such .changes In combination with a motor vehicle, a bumper connected with each end thereof, a` bumper vieldingly connected with each Aoi the running boards of the vehicle, the front end of each side bumper inclining upwardly to rotect the front wheell and the front fen. er and the rear of each side bumper v being substantiall straight'iand extendin across the rear w eel and the rear end 0% the rear fender. 10

In testimony whereof I1 ailix my signature.

Hauer MyroKERY. 

